On 4/7/2013 4:02 PM, Ophelia wrote:

>> We rarely ate potatoes or pasta, when I grew up, but we ate a lot of
>> white
>> rice. In Louisiana schools, they served white rice, almost every day, in
>> one form or another; jambalaya, dirty rice, rice & gravy. We had white
>> rice last week, and it was the first time we had it in about year, and I
>> absolutely loved it. I try to stay away from flour, sugar, carbs, so
>> white
>> rice with butter and salt was a real treat. It was what I grew up with.
>
> Dirty rice! What is that?

Dirty rice tastes pretty good. Not sure how the school made it, but this
is close to my mother's recipe.

http://www.gumbopages.com/food/veg/dirty-rice.html

Becca